Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) waiting time at Young Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 191 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 176 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 175 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Young Hospital	191 days	not published	11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	58 days	3.2%	6357 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	48 days	2.3%	18067 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 48 days marks the national median.

Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 66 km away46 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 123 km away44 days
Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 130 km away90 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 134 km away66 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 139 km away52 days
Queanbeyan HospitalNSW · about 143 km away57 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 156 km away59 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 193 km away62 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Young Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	60	51
2012–13	not reported for this period	56	50
2013–14	not reported for this period	55	46
2014–15	not reported for this period	56	43
2015–16	not published	56	42
2016–17	69	51	41
2017–18	74	54	45
2018–19	55	55	45
2019–20	not published	55	48
2020–21	280	63	56
2021–22	256	60	53
2022–23	343	72	59
2023–24	122	62	46
2024–25	191	58	48

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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